http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/06/1409254/-Four-southern-California-police-officers-arrested-for-abusing-13-children-in-camp-for-troubled-youth?detail=email
So, let's get this straight.
Children as young as 12 years old were sent to this court-mandated camp on a Southern California military base because they were "troubled," but ended up being assaulted, beaten, and humiliated by the police. Now four of the officers have been arrested. According to local media:
Four Southern California police officers were arrested on suspicion of physically abusing children at a police-run boot camp for troubled youths, sheriff's officials said Wednesday.
Sheriff's detectives arrested Detective Marissa Larios, 36, and Officer Patrick Nijland, 47, of the Huntington Park Police Department and officers Carlos Gomez-Marquez, 31, and Edgar Gomez, 35, of the South Gate Police Department on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department.
The camp is called the Leadership, Empowerment and Discipline Program and is held on a National Guard base this past May, where 13 different children ranging from the ages of 12 to 17 stated to investigators that they were choked, punched, kicked, slapped, beaten, and thrown around like rag dolls throughout the week they were there.
Not to sound smug, but maybe police officers aren't the right people, and a military base isn't the right place, for a camp that needs to teach kids about non-violence, discipline, and self-control.
My question is this: What camp will the police who did this get sent to? Seems like they need the very lessons they were brought there to teach in the first place.
short and sweet to the author "TOUCHE'", but probably paid vacation camp and dismissed charges he said she said without marks from beatings no case.
